On Sunday, December 7th 2002, despite freezing cold, and a historic ice storm, the North
Carolina Robot Street Fight was held in Salisbury, NC. A great time was had by all.
Although Red Menace went 0-2, some valuable lessons were learned. In the first
fight, one of the battery connectors came loose and we lost half our power, which then
caused radio problems. After jury-rigging alternate power connections, we had an exciting
second fight, surviving being flipped (we were not invertable because we were close to our
weight limit) and delivering a mighty whack that bent the other robot but, alas, screwed up
the receiver power link I'd cobbled together. Oh well...
Below the images gallery are links to over 40 MPEG-4 quicktime movies, mostly fights
of the larger bots because we only brought a couple of tapes. Enjoy!
These movies were videotaped on DV by my son James, age 9.99. If you like them,
email him and tell him what you think; he worked hard
all day and stayed up way past his bedtime to fill up 2 tapes of video. This was the
first time he'd used a video camera, and we would like to thank the drivers who graciously
spared some space on the platform in order that he could get close with the tripod. If
any of you would like full-resolution clips of your fights, please let us know. Also, my
apologies for the slight audio whine, this was caused by an import problem in iMovie that
I hope to fix eventually. Finally, I didn't get the names of all the robots, so please
email me corrections and/or sarcastic titles for the fights!
Oh yes, this site is linked to the net by a puny T-1 connection, so download times
may be a bit sluggish if you have a broadband connection.
